Miss Grand International Myanmar 2020 Han Lay will stay in Thailand as she would face persecution if she returned home after her on-stage plea, pageant organizers said.
Thai police confiscate thousands of live rounds and over a hundred grenades believed to be bound for Myanmar town of Tachileik.
15-year-old fisherman Maung Yarzar Htwe was taken away by security forces after he was shot.
Both malls burned during curfew hours and would be difficult for arsonists to target, raising fears the junta torched them as a pretext to crack down on ‘rioters’.
An unnamed medic tells The Irrawaddy about how his colleagues were beaten during a nighttime raid on his South Okkalapa hospital.
Three NLD members in Yangon and Naypyitaw have died in custody since early March. U Kyaw Kyaw is the latest victim.
In Yangon alone, police and soldiers raided four hospitals and a maternity ward in March. Live ammunition and rubber bullets were fired; staff were shot and badly beaten.
Attack was in retribution for lethal crackdowns on anti-military regime protesters in Myanmar’s urban areas.
A young victim of Myanmar’s junta in Monywa recalled how he was mistreated by soldiers during his detention.
The number of children slain by regime soldiers and police since the Feb. 1 coup now numbers at least 34. Here are the names and faces of those identified so...
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